Kelsey

“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.

If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.”
― Frederick Buechner